Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:07:22 -0700 From: Yevgeniy Aleynikov <eugenea@infospace.com> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, ache@FreeBSD.ORG, mckusick@mckusick.com, Ken Pizzini <kenp@infospace.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch #3 (was Re: bleh. Re: ufs_rename panic) Message-ID: <3BD05DCA.F8F4D8B3@infospace.com> References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0110031029380.11609-100000@onyx>
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FYI: http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?id=1&mid=221337&start=2001-10-15&end=2001-10-21 (about how things done in Linux). Zhihui Zhang wrote: > (1) I am always wondering why not use a global rename lock so that there > is only one rename operation in progress at any time. This method is > used by GFS and probably Linux. This could make the code simply. Maybe > we can even get rid of the relookup() stuff. > > This may reduce concurrency, but rename should not be a frequent > operation. > -- Yevgeniy Aleynikov Infospace, Inc. SysAdmin, USE Work: (206)357-4594 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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